Street and station indicator.



W. JACOBSEN, IND. CAMERON & F. LOUGH.

STREET AND STATION INDICATOR.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 20, 1912.

Patented Apr. 13, 1915.

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WILLIAM JACOIBSEN, JAM s DUNCAN CAMERON, AND FREDERIC JOSEPH LOUGH, E

DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND, ASSIGNOBS TO THE JAGOIBSEN DESTINATION INDICATOR COMPANY LIMITED, 0F DUNEDIN; NEW

ZEALAND.

STREET AND STATION INDICATOR.

Application filed December 20, 1912.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, WILLIAM JAooBsEN, JAMES DUNCAN CAMERON, and IFREDERIG JOSEPH 'LoUCH, all citizens of the Dominion .ployed to indicate the next stopping place of railway trains and tramcars and the like and is also applicable for employment in connection with the exhibiting of telephone lists, street directories, advertisements and j the like. The invention may be mechanically operated or may be driven by electricity and consists in the improved mechanism now about to be particularly described by the aid of the accompanying drawings of which Figure 1, is an end elevation of a tramcar fitted with the invention. Fig. 2, is an elevation ofa casing. Fig. 3, a longitudinal section. Fig. 4, a front end elevation, and Fig. 5, a'rear end elevation of the apparatus. Fig. 6, is an elevation of a spring operated reversing pin. Fig. 7,'a longitudinal section, and Fig. 8, across sectional elevation of a striking finger and mechanism, and Fig. 9, an elevation of a tension.

. Referring in the first place more particularly to apparatus which is mechanically operated, a striking plate 1 is fixed above the railway or tramway 2 in a position where it will be struck by a striking finger 3 pivoted by a spindle 4 upon a standard 5 fixed to the vehicle 6. A toothed quadrant 7 fixed to the spindle 4 gears with a pinion 8 mounted upon a spindle 9 to which an arm 10 is fixed. A chain, cord or the like 14, is attached to the arm 10 andprovided with'a spring tension, as shown in- Fig. 9. This tension consistsof a bolt provided with a nut 16 and a plate 17, a spring 18 mounted upon the bolt between the nut 16and the plate 17, and a shackle 19 secured to the plate 17. cord is attached to a hook 21 adapted to engage in one of a plurality of holes 24 ina disk 25 having a hole 26 to fit the sided end of a main spindle 30 and kept in position by a nut 31 screwed upon the said spindle.

Specification of Letters Patent.

The other end 20 of the chain or Patented Apr. 13, 1915.

Serial No. 73?,773.

The spindle 30 is mounted in end plates 32 and 33, and a coil spring 34 surrounding the end of the said spindles has one end 35 engaged by the disk 25 and the other end 36 engaged by the end plate 33. The spring is inclosed in a casing 37 of which the disk 25 forms an end. The opposite end of the spindle 30 is provided with an arm 40 rigidly fixed to the spindle and in which a pin 41 is pivoted and to which a reversible pawl 42 is fixed. The pin 41 hasan arm 43 provided with an operating knob 44 and with a stud 45 which is connected to the casing 46 by a tension spring 47 so that when the pawl 42 is thrown over upon either side of the center of the spindle 30 by turning over the knob 44 in the direction shown by the arrow in Fig. 6, the tension spring 47 tends to retain the pawl upon that side to which it has been turned, the movement bein limited at a pin 50 projecting from the spin le 30 and contacting with lugs or pins 51 projecting from the plate 32.

The pawl 42 engages a ratchet wheel 55 integral with a toothed wheel 56 mounted freely upon the spindle 30. The wheel 56 gears withpinions 57 and 58 fixed to'short shafts 60 and 61 mounted in the plate 32. The shaft 61 is provided With an operating handle 62 and the inner ends of the said shafts 60 and 61 receive the ends of roller spindles 63 and 64 and have slots 65 and 66 to engage pins 67 and 68 projecting radially from the spindle 30. The opposite ends 70 and 71 of the spindles 63 and 64 are pointed and pivoted in blocks 72 and 73 slidable in bearings in the plate 33, and projected by springs 74 and 75. A band 76 bearing the names of streets, stations or the like is mounted upon the rollers 78 and 79 fixed to the spindles 63 and 64, the said band passing around a tension roller 80 which is mounted in slots 81 formed in the plates 32 and 33.

When the finger 3 strikes the plate 1 its quadrant 7 operates the pinion 8 and arm 10, whereby a pull is exerted upon the cord 14, the hook 21 operates the disk 25, the arm 40 and the pawl 42, the pinions 57 and 58 are rotated by the wheel 56 and the band 76 wrapped either upon the. roller 78 or 79 according to the way in which the pawl 42 is set. The movement'of the spindle 30 by the disk 25 being limited by the pin 50 strik- ZEALAND, A oonronA'rron or NEVI ing the stops,5l,je'Xoess of motion jofv the finger is 'absorbed byjthe tension, shown in "g, IThe, return istro'ke j of the disk" is;

fie'cted by thespring as the "end of the ITjo'urneyjangoperator reverses the pawl 42 I by :means of j t he operating knob all, the; 'mecha'nisin will then rewindlthe band 176 [upon the roller from which'it had been With- I drawn during'the previous journey. If the" "band 7' 6 should require adjusting at any 1 this is readily efiected by means of the operating handle 62.

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What We" do claim the,combin tion zwith an over head'wire a 'ehicle, a strikinglfinger mounted upon the eliicle adapted tostrike against said plate,

:quadrant rotatable with the finger, a cord operable by. the", actionof the quadrant, a asi ng, a main spindlehdisposedfwithinsaid easingandrotatableby the pullofthe cord, j an arm'fixed to the spindle, a pin pivotedin I an'} arm 'fixedifto the fpin and connectedto the casing by, said spring, a" spur' wheel,

at ratchet W ee Operable by said aw1 andt integral-with said' spur Wheel, pinions'g'ean' .f-sp'ind'l'esfiupon w hich the pinions are fixed -anc1;a'da pted; to-"ope'rate' said rollers, land a thejarmapa r'fixed to the pin, aspring,

i'ng Wi'th-jsaidspun'wheel, a pair of rollers,

station indicatingfband mounted said 5 2. ln-anap paratus or" the described,

" a a yehicle, a striking finger mounted npon mount'edupon said rollers. V 3.1Inan 'apparatus'of the'ftypedescribed,

L th'e' conibination'withan overhead Wire hav h ing "a striking plate securedthereto, ofa .7

' the if' e hicle and adapted to" contact with said plate, a" quadrant rotatable with the finger, ,e j "afcord-operableby the a'otion'gof the quad- H ant, a casing-, ain ain spindle disposed 'v'vithin said lcasing,1adisk having a'plurality of :hjoles andfixe'dtgj the main spindle, a-hook' upon said'cord fladapted to'engage one of v said holes, an" arm fizied to the 'spindle, a ppin pivotedingsaid arm, pawl fixed to the pin,=a spring am arm fiXe'd toethe pin and connected to the casing by said spring,' a

"spurjwhe'el, a ratchet wheel operable by the 7 p'awl'ffand integral with said spur w'heel, 'pi-ni'ons gearing With-said s ur iivheel, a'r

pair -of frollers, spindles upon which said 7 a fl pinionsare fixed and adapted to operate said rollers,j and a station indicating band 1 "(lople's o this iiatent niay be obtained for five ee nt's V p v and-'desirejto secure H byfLetters Patent of the United Statesris l." In anfapparaitusof the kind described,

having" astrfiking, plate secured thereto, of

,vehicle, a striking finger mounted upon the a pin on," said quadrant having teeth gearingith the pinion," an, arm fixed to J said pinion, atension cord'att ached to "the arm, a hook upon the end of the cord, a casing,

a mainspindle disposedfwithin said casing,

an operating disk, attached to said spindle, said disk have a plurality of holes within which said hook is adapted to engage, an arm fiXed to saidspindle, a pin pivotedin 1 the'arni, a pawl fiX ed'toth'epin, a spring, an arm fixed t'osaid pinfand connected were oasij'ng by said spring, a spur wheel,a ratchet Wheeloperable by said pawl and integral With said spur Wheel, p'inions gearing- With i th e spur wheel, pair of rollers, spindles upon which the pinion'sare fixed and adapted -to operate said rollers anda stationindicatin'gband mounted-upon said rollers, as and forthe' purposespecified; I

eplnan apparatus'of the type described, thecombinati'on With. an over head Wire supportingfa striking plate securedithereto,

of a vehicle," a {striking finger mounted jupon' j the 'vehiclef'adapte'd to strikev against sai plate,v a quadrantrotatable With the'finger, a cordopera'bleby the iactionof the quadrant,'a casing,- a main spindle disposed within said casing and rotatable by the pull of the cord, an end -plate" and 'a disk spaced therefroni' secured to said :main spindle, an arm fixed to the spindle, a pin pivoted in the arm,=a pawl fixed to the'pim-a spring, an arm-fiXed-to the piniand' connected to the casing by said spring,- a spufwheel, a

ratchet ,Wheel operable by the pawl andiintegral With said spur wheel, pinions gearing with said spur wheel, a pair of rollers,spindles upon-Which the pinions are fixed and adapted to operatesaid rollers, a station indicatingiband mounted upon said rollers,

a "spring surrounding the end ofthe main spindle -and connected at one end to said end plate of the apparatusand at the other end to the disk,-a pin projectingfromthe main spindle, andstops limiting the movement ofsaid pin. V

' *In testimony whereofwe have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two Witnesses J i U ILLIAM JACOBSEN. JAMES. DUNCAN CAMERON; s FBEDERIC JOSEPH LOUGH.

' Witnesses: L l v HALFRED WILLIA DAsAPEr,

SAMUEL Prrrnrr' MonAMs'.

each,by addressing the f Commissioner of, l alten te.

* Washington, Di 0.- 

